Fishguard, The Lower Town c.1955
Photo ref:
F28043
More about this scene
This very attractive fishing port used to be a busy port for agricultural and fish product exports. The impressive harbour with its fine breakwater was constructed in 1906, in an effort to entice the great sea-going ships away from Liverpool and Southampton, but this idea came to nothing. Fishguard is famous for the defeat and capture of a French 'invasion force' in 1797, by the women of the town! The French force, which comprised a rag tail collection of drunken troops and released prisoners, attempted to land near the town. Hundreds of the town's women had donned scarlet clothes in order to look like soldiers, and this bluff, together with the effects of the alcohol, forced the French to surrender. One group of women, headed by a 'Jemima Fawr', and armed just with pitchforks, caught a dozen soldiers. This incident has the distinction of being the last invasion of British soil by a foreign power.
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